The CAFE Suit

So we have 9 states and 2 cities are suing the Bush Administration for not raising CAFE standards enough on SUVs. Who is involved?

• California Attorney General Bill Lockyer (Democrat)
• Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal (Democrat)
• Maine Attorney General G. Steven Rowe (Democrat)
• Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas Reilly (Democrat)
• New Jersey Attorney General Zulima Farber (Democrat)
• New Mexico Attorney General Patricia Madrid (Democrat)
• New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer (Democrat)
• Oregon Attorney General Hardy Myers (Democrat)
• Rhode IslandAttorney General Patrick Lynch (Democrat)
• Vermont Attorney General Bill Sorrell (Democrat)
• New York City Corporate Counsel (probably Democrat)
• Washington DC Attorney General Robert J. Spagnoletti (Democrat)

Sensing the party affiliation? Uh huh.

The Federal response to this will hopefully be "frivolous lawsuit please dismiss". US auto manufacturers are in serious trouble right now. Placing big financial demands on them to design new vehicles that the marketplace doesn't necessarily want is stupid. More importantly, gas prices are doing far more for increasing demand for fuel efficient vehicles that any of this supply side crap ever did.